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<td class="v">7:1</td>
<td>When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.</td>
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<td class="v">7:2</td>
<td>And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.</td>
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<td class="v">7:3</td>
<td>They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.</td>
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<td class="v">7:4</td>
<td>They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.</td>
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<td class="v">7:5</td>
<td>In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.</td>
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<td class="v">7:6</td>
<td>For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.</td>
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<td class="v">7:7</td>
<td>They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.</td>
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<td class="v">7:8</td>
<td>Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.</td>
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<td class="v">7:9</td>
<td>Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.</td>
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<td class="v">7:10</td>
<td>And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.</td>
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<td class="v">7:11</td>
<td>Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.</td>
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<td class="v">7:12</td>
<td>When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.</td>
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<td class="v">7:13</td>
<td>Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.</td>
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<td class="v">7:14</td>
<td>And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.</td>
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<td class="v">7:15</td>
<td>Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.</td>
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<td class="v">7:16</td>
<td>They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.</td>
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